ONS Foundation Academic Scholarships

All awards, grants, and scholarships are tentative and subject to change based on funding availability.

Doctoral Scholarships (FO05W)

Purpose:  To provide scholarships to registered nurses who are interested in and committed to oncology nursing to continue their education by pursuing a doctoral degree.

Qualifications:

1. The candidate must be currently enrolled in (or applying to) a doctoral nursing degree or related program and enrolled in the 2009–2010 academic year.
2. The candidate must have a current license to practice as a registered nurse and must have an interest in and commitment to oncology nursing.
3. Candidates entering a doctoral program without a master’s degree must have completed the first two years of the doctoral program curriculum to be eligible.
4. At the end of each year of scholarship participation, the nurse shall submit a summary describing the education activities in which he/she participated.

NOTE: An individual cannot receive this award more than one time.

Awards:

• $5,000 Roberta Pierce Scofield Doctoral Scholarship*, supported by the ONS Foundation
• $3,000 Ann Olson Memorial Doctoral Scholarship**, supported by Pfizer Oncology
• $3,000 Thomas Jordan Doctoral Scholarship***, supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology

*This award is in memory of Roberta Pierce Scofield, an oncology nurse and the first president of ONCC, who died of cancer in 1988.
**Ann Olson was an oncology sales representative who died of cancer in 1989.
***Thomas Jordan is a past member of the ONS Foundation Board of Trustees.

Application deadline:  February 1, 2009